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My solution for the health care issue: A Constitutional Amendment should be created to establish a National Single-Payer Health Care System. Hospitals and clinics will be paid for by new tax dollars. Doctors, nurses, and other staff are paid SALARIES by taxpayers, not on a commission basis. All preventive, basic, and emergency health care services will be provided at no cost. Non-medically necessary elective procedures will not be covered by taxpayer dollars. To address supply problems, incentive packages in the form of student loan forgiveness for medical students will be offered for those who work in government-funded hospitals. However, the Amendment will contain an opt-out clause for the new tax if some want to keep their for-profit health "insurance," but they will be barred from using any taxpayer-funded health services under any and all circumstances.

A true single-payer, universal health care system is the ONLY way to fix America's corrupt health care system.

I don't understand how the Unconstitutional "Individual Mandate" is so vital to the rest of the law. Without it, it's simply insurance regulation, which is badly needed. The current system of profits over patients is broken, and I REFUSE to be bullied by my government to waste my hard-earned money keeping "insurance" companies on life support.

The Unconstitutional anti-wolf rider from the federal budget needs to be repealed, and NOW. Wolves are a keystone species in an ecosystem, and killing them off doesn't do any good. I used to live in an area that killed off all the predators, and deer were overpopulated and diseased.

The sheer ignorance of wolf haters never ceases to amaze me. Just looking at the research done when wolves were re-introduced into Yellowstone National Park tells all. Wolves are highly BENEFICIAL to the ecosystem, and their presence directly affects local prey herd health and floral biodiversity in an EXTREMELY positive manner.

Take a look at the number of cattle killed by poisonous plants. Now take a look at the number of cattle killed by wolves. Ranchers are barking up the wrong tree, because they simply refuse to accept the facts of nature like the ignorant rednecks they are.

While playing the Devil's Advocate isn't the way to make friends, it sure as hell is the way to get people thinking. Who knows, it just might get some people to re-examine their faith and become better Christians!

But yes, I am a non-theist and my wife is a Pagan. We are both proud to be non-Christians. We both cherish the fact that our nation's Constitution protects our rights to believe differently, and not live in a society where someone else's faith dictates our laws.

Exactly. Just leave the wolves alone and let nature take it's course. Things fall out of balance as soon as humans who THINK they know better try to "fix" things. There is a long, long historical record of wildlife "management" completely destroying nature's balance.

NEVER introduce one species to an area to control another. Remember the cane toad in Australia? Doesn't work.

Ethanol sounds good on paper, but doesn't work in the real world. It harms small engines and older vehicles, reduces fuel economy, and makes us all spend more money, both at the pump and in the supermarket.

If extremists want to attack Muslims that had nothing to do with terrorism, I need to protect myself and those around me. I am employed by Muslims, and I fear that myself and those I work with could be in danger from the "retaliation" by militant extremist christians.

I'm not Muslim, nor am I Christian, but I agree with the saying "an armed society is a safe one."